Comecon

The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, often abbreviated as Comecon ( ) or CMEA, was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of communist states elsewhere in the world.

oil pipeline in Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine

Soviet-type economic planning enforced by the ruling communist parties

Soviet Union aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe

multilateral development institution

series of Soviet mainframes, substantially copied from IBM mainframes

RGW-Auto was a joint project for the construction of passenger cars in the former East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Both countries were members of Comecon (the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance). The aging Trabant 601, Wartburg 353, Škoda 100 and Dacia 1300 were to be replaced by vehicles with a modern design. The manufacturers involved were Automobilwerk Eisenach (Wartburg), Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau (Trabant), AZNP Mladá Boleslav (Škoda) and Uzina de Autoturisme Pitești (Dacia). Mass production of the ambitious project was to begin in 1978, but it never happened.

statistical index used in the USSR as a susbstitute to GDP

thumb | right | alt=Interexpress "Berolina" Warszaw-Berlin, 1991 | Interexpress "Berolina" Warszaw-Berlin, 1991 Interexpress (abbreviated as "IEx") is a former international train category. The word Interexpress is a short form version of the German language term (English: International Express) and its foreign language equivalents.